Estimating the potential yield of small building-mounted wind turbines

Wind Energy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-287

  Heath, Malcolm A ^a   Walshe, John D ^a   Watson, Simon J ^b  

^a EON Technologies   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building effects; Built environment; Computational fluid dynamics; Urban meteorology; Wind energy; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND POWER;

BUILDING EFFECTS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; URBAN METEOROLOGY; WIND PROFILE;

WIND TURBINES;

AERODYNAMICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250759866     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.222     Document Type: Article

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